"I don't see myself as a soloist," AC/DC's lead guitarist has said of his hyper style. "It's a shading; I place it in for fervor." Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell called him "the total divine force of blues-shake guitar." The approach that Angus Young and his beat guitar-playing sibling, Malcolm, created in AC/DC's initial years –
fast pentatonic keeps running over loud power-harmony licks – turned into a hard-shake convention, and a large number of guitarists the world over have his "Back in Black" and "Expressway to Hell" licks engraved on their brains. "Malcolm and Angus have accomplished more with three harmonies than some other person," said Slash. Angus Young's dramatic persona – l schoolboy outfits, duckwalking like a smallish Chuck Berry – is as bright as his playing. "He resembles Clark fucking Kent!" AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson disclosed to Rolling Stone in 2008. "He goes into a telephone stall and turns out as the 14-year-old demon, prepared to shake!"
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